![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Flint Heart - Eden Phillpotts LibriVox recording of The Flint Heart, by Eden Phillpotts. Read by David Wales. The flint heart is a stone of heart shape, forged in prehistoric times, that changes whoever owns it into a wicked person. The story of the flint heart's ultimate defeat involves multiple trips into fairyland by Charles and Unity, children of one of the heart's victims. Along the way the reader meets lots of fun characters such as the king of fairyland, a talking (and wounded) hot water bottle, and the mysterious Zag... Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; fiction; fantasy; fairy tales Downloads: 1,051 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Victory - Lester del Rey LibriVox recording of Victory by Lester del Rey. Recording by Gregg Margarite. Lester del Rey (1915 – 1993) was a Golden Age science fiction author and editor closely connected to John W. Campbell Jr. and Astounding Science Fiction magazine. He also founded Del Rey Books, a popular publishing label he edited with his wife Judy-Lynn. Victory is the story of an undefended Earth in a warring galaxy... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; scifi; science fiction; sci-fi Downloads: 13,377 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The People of the Crater - Andre Norton LibriVox recording of The People of the Crater, by Andre Norton. Read by Gregg Margarite. An air force pilot adrift in peacetime is recruited to join an Antarctic expedition. When a strange mist downs his plane he discovers an ancient alien civilization which has prophesized his arrival. Now he and his faithful pet Ana must descend to the depths of the crater and face the Black Ones in order to rescue the fair Thrala, daughter of the Ancient Ones... Keywords: Science fiction; sci-fi; literature; Librivox; audiobook Downloads: 10,330 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Fables in Slang - George Ade LibriVox recording of Fables in Slang, by George Ade. Read by Gregg Margarite While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists, idealists, snobs, fanatics and other ignorant fools of the day, most of which still wander through our modern lives... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; ade; fable; humor; comedy Downloads: 6,733 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Hellhounds of the Cosmos - Clifford Simak LibriVox recording of Hellhounds of the Cosmos, by Clifford Simak. Read by Phil Chenevert From Astounding Stories of 1932. Earth is being attacked by horrible black monsters that appear from nowhere and destroy and kill everything and everyone in their paths. Nothing affects them, nothing stops them; they are impervious to all weapons. Earth is doomed. But there is one hope and it rests on the shoulders of 98 brave men... Keywords: science fiction; SF; simak; astounding stories; librivox; audiobook Downloads: 3,200 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Five Stories by Alan Nourse - Alan Nourse LibriVox recording of Five Stories by Alan Nourse, by Alan Nourse. Read by KirksVoice. These Five Stories were written by Alan Edward Nourse, an American science fiction (SF) author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His SF works generally focused on medicine and/or psionics. Psionics refers to the practice, study, or psychic ability of using the mind to induce paranormal phenomena... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; fantasy; science fiction; short stories Downloads: 3,307 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Stamped Caution - Raymond Z. Gallun LibriVox recording of Stamped Caution, by Raymond Z. Gallun. Read by Gregg Margarite. When an alien spacecraft crashes in Missouri a team of army investigators is dispatched. Among the debris they find a Martian infant and decide to raise him in their lab. Is he too strange to form a relationship with humans? Maybe, but he does have cute eye-stalks. – Stamped Caution was first published in the August 1953 issue of Galaxy magazine... Keywords: Science fiction; sci-fi; literature; Librivox; audiobook Downloads: 5,445 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Rover Boys at School - Arthur M. Winfield LibriVox recording of The Rover Boys at School, by Arthur M. Winfield. Read by Bellona Times. First of the famous Rover Boys books by future Hardy Boys creator Edward Stratemeyer (under the pseudonym Arthur M Winfield), this is an introduction to the fun-loving teenage Rover Brothers -- Dick, Tom & Sam. Virtual orphans, they are sent by their prudish Uncle Randolph to a military boarding school and their adventures soon begin! (Summary by BellonaTimes) For further information, including links to... Keywords: LibriVox; audio book; Children; Adventure Downloads: 3,505 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Dark Moon - Charles W. Diffin LibriVox recording of Dark Moon, by Charles W. Diffin. Read by Richard Kilmer. Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange adventures. (Summary by Charles Diffin) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; fiction; science fiction Downloads: 5,514 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Lone Wolf - Louis Joseph Vance LibriVox recording of The Lone Wolf, by Louis Joseph Vance. The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made much more difficult by his need to take care of the beautiful Lucia, who has a dark secret of her own. A large number of movies have been based on the books... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; michael lanyard; adventure; mystery Downloads: 3,117 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Golden Snare - Oliver Curwood LibriVox recording of The Golden Snare, by Oliver Curwood: Read by Roger Melin With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder and a wild, untamed and savage man who commands a pack of wolves as his brethren. But most peculiar of all is the snare which Bram had had in his posession and had somehow lost. It was a golden snare intricately woven out of the finest, most delicate flaxen hair of a woman... Keywords: Librivox; audiobooks; Adventure; Mounties; Far North Downloads: 4,001 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Operation: Outer Space - Murray Leinster LibriVox recording of Operation: Outer Space, by Murray Leinster. Read by Mark Nelson. Jed Cochrane is about to take off on man's first interstellar voyage. His mission: Make sure it's good television! (Introduction by Mark Nelson) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; fantasy; fiction; science fiction Downloads: 6,855 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Last Enemy - H. Beam Piper LibriVox recording of Last Enemy, by H. Beam Piper. Read by Mark Nelson. An undercover Paratimer has disappeared on assignment while in an alternate time line, and it’s up to Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police to save her. To do so, he must infiltrate a universe in which assassination is an honorable profession, and reincarnation a scientific fact. Will Verkan Vall survive in a world of killers and the undead? (Summary by mark Nelson) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, ... Keywords: science fiction; adventure; librivox Downloads: 9,731 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Mysterious Key and What It Opened - Louisa May Alcott LibriVox recording of The Mysterious Key and What It Opened by Louisa May Alcott. Read by ashleighjane In this delightful short story, we discover the secrets of the Trevlyn family. 'The Mysterious Key and What it Opened' is a mystery entwined with romance (Introduction by ashleighjane) M4B format available For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording... Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; mystery; fiction; Louisa May Alcott Downloads: 5,359 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Lair of the White Worm (Version 2) - Bram Stoker Librivox recording of The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. The Lair of the White Worm (also known as The Garden of Evil) is a horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, who also wrote Dracula. It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. The book was published in 1911, the year before Stoker's death, with color illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. In 1988, it was adapted into a film by Ken Russell... Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; horror Downloads: 11,933 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Ego Machine - Henry Kuttner LibriVox recording of the Ego Machine, by Henry Kuttner. Read by Gregg Margarite. Celebrated playwright Nicholas Martin didn’t read the small print in his Hollywood options contract. Now he’s facing five years of servitude to a conceited director named Raoul St. Cyr, who’s taken a thoughtful play about Portuguese fishermen and added dancing mermaids. When it seems the plot has changed to include a robot from the future Nicholas looses all hope, but this robot may be just what he needs to w... Keywords: adventure; science fiction; librivox; literature; audiobook Downloads: 6,095 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Tom Swift in Captivity - Victor Appleton LibriVox recording of Tom Swift in Captivity, by Victor Appleton. Read by Tom Weiss. Tom Swift is approached by Mr. Preston, the owner of a circus, and begins to tell the story of Jake Poddington, Mr. Preston's most skilled hunter. As it turns out, Jake went missing just after sending word to Preston that Jake was on the trail of a tribe of giants, somewhere in South Africa. That was the last Preston has heard of Jake Poddington... Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; children; boy Downloads: 4,023 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Circular Staircase - Mary Roberts Rinehart Librivox recording of The Circular Staircase, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 1908 and includes all the elements of the classic whodunit – mysterious events, ghostly apparitions, things that go bump in the night and murder. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer) Read by Librivox volunteers For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org... Downloads: 100,251 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Vortex Blaster - E.E. Smith LibriVox recording of THE VORTEX BLASTER, by E.E. "Doc" Smith. Read by Phil Chenevert Uncontrolled, terribly violent Atomic Vortices are slowly destroying civilization on every human planet throughout the galaxy. Nothing can contain or stop them despite the lensmen's best efforts until one destroys the home and family of "Storm" Cloud, brilliant atomic physicist. The tragedy triggers actions on his part that pit him one-on-one against the horrible vortices... Keywords: librivox; science fiction; SF; Harrison; audiobook Downloads: 3,242 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Operation Terror - Murray Leinster LibriVox recording of Operation Terror, by Murray Leinster. Read by Mark Nelson. An unidentified space ship lands in a Colorado lake. Equipped with a paralyzing ray weapon, the creatures begin taking human prisoners. A loan land surveyor and a journalist are trapped inside the Army cordon, which is helpless against the mysterious enemy. Can they stop the aliens before it is too late? (Summary by Mark Nelson) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org... Keywords: librivox; science fiction; adventure; fiction Downloads: 23,574 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Zanoni - Edward Bulwer-Lytton LibriVox recording of Zanoni, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Read by KirksVoice. Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with Viola Pisani, a promising young opera singer from Naples, the daughter of Pisani, a misunderstood Italian violinist. An English gentleman named Glyndon loves Viola as well, but is indecisive about proposing marriage, and then renounces his love in order to pursue occult study... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; fiction; philosophy Downloads: 1,162 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The House by the Lock - Alice Muriel Williamson LibriVox recording of The House by the Lock, by Mrs. C.N. Williamson. Read by Roger Melin. What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but what leads Noel Stanton on a quest to determine who the killer might be is more than merely the disappearance of his American friend Harvey Farnham... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; fiction; horror/ghost stories; mystery Downloads: 14,230 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Mercenary - Mack Reynolds LibriVox recording of MERCENARY, by MACK REYNOLDS. Read by MARK NELSON. Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers--the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning..... (Introduction from the Gutenberg text) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this r... Keywords: fiction; science fiction Downloads: 7,865 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Camp-Fire Girls in the Country or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot - Stella M. Francis LibriVox recording of CAMP-FIRE GIRLS INT HE COUNTRY OR THE SECRET AUNT HANNAH FORGOT, by STELLA M. FRANCIS. Read by Lee Ann Howlett. Teen-ager Hazel Edwards and the other twelve members of the Flamingo Camp-Fire Girls experience some real adventure when they are invited to spend part of their summer as guests of Hazel’s elderly aunt on her large country farm. Mrs. Hannah Hutchins is a widow living alone with a few servants and farming assistants in her home in the midwestern town of Fairberry... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; girls; series book; mystery; adventure; teen Downloads: 1,250 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung - Victor Appleton LibriVox recording of Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung, by Victor Appleton. Read by Mark F. Smith. The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South Atlantic.Faced with a huge search task to find the probe on the ocean bottom, Tom soon realizes that the same shadowy group that attacked the probe is competing to find it, and no holds are barred: kidnap, coercio... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; tom swift; appeton; adventure; science fiction Downloads: 7,949 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Secret House - Edgar Wallace LibriVox recording of The Secret House, by Edgar Wallace. Read by Don W. Jenkins. A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the “editor” whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than lively gossip about the elite. Blackmail and opportunism is the order of the day... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; mystery; blackmail; opportunism; Farrington; shooting Downloads: 4,347 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris - G. A. Henty LibriVox recording of At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris , by G. A. Henty. Read by Mike Harris The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with her children, to go to Paris as hostages. Guy Aylmer went with her. Paris was turbulent. Soon the guild of the butchers, adopting white hoods as their uniform, seized the city, and besieged the house where our hero and his charges lived... Keywords: Librvox; Audiobook; Historical Fiction; Young Adults; France Downloads: 10,770 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | A Master Hand - Richard Dallas LibriVox recording of A Master Hand, by Richard Dallas. Read by Delmar H. Dolbier. This murder mystery, written in 1903 by Richard Dallas (pseudonym), describes a fictional crime that took place in the New York City of 1883. A fine period piece as well as a clever detective story. (Introduction by Delmar H. Dolbier) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this reco... Keywords: Mystery; literature; Librivox; audiobook Downloads: 2,850 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Shrieking Pit - Arthur Rees LibriVox recording of The Shrieking Pit, by Arthur Rees. Read by Kevin Green. The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective, is holidaying in East Anglia when he notices a young man at a nearby table behaving peculiarly. The young man later leaves the hotel without paying his bill, and turns up in a nearby hamlet in the Norfolk marshes where he takes lodgings at the village inn... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; crime; thriller; norfolk; detective; world war one; ww1 Downloads: 2,182 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | A Mysterious Disappearance - Louis Tracy LibriVox recording of A Mysterious Disappearance by Louis Tracy. Read by Carolin Kaiser. Lady Dyke disappears mysteriously, and barrister and hobby detective Claude Bruce appears to be one of the last persons to have seen her. A short time later a dead body is found in the river, and Bruce follows the trails. Who is Sydney H. Corbett? Why did the Lady's maid disappear shortly after her Lady? And what business did Lady Dyke have at Sloane Square? If Bruce can find the answer to these questions, h... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; public domain; barrister; mystery; Claude Bruce; Mensmore; Sir Charles Dyke; Lady Alice Dyke; Marie le Marchant; London; Monte-Carlo; riviera; murder; disappearance; Foxey; Sydney Corbett; Gwendolyn Hilmer; suicide Downloads: 5,231 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Mansion of Mystery - Chester K. Steele LibriVox recording of The Mansion of Mystery, by Chester K. Steele. Mr. and Mrs. Langmore were found mysteriously murdered in their mansion one morning. Their daughter Margaret, who was at home at the time of the deaths, is quickly suspected of having committed the crime. However, her fiance Raymond Case will not believe in her guilt and convinces the famous detective Adam Adams to investigate. This book was written by Edward Stratemeyer, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, under the pseudonym of... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; fiction; mystery Downloads: 3,290 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Coming of Bill - P.G. Wodehouse LibriVox recording of The Coming of Bill, by P.G. Wodehouse. The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by the interference of Ruth's busybody writer aunt, Mrs Lora Delane Porter. (Introduction by Wikipedia) Read by Don W. Jenkins. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; audio book; novel; fiction; wodehouse, humor, humour Downloads: 7,578 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Black Star - Johnston McCulley LibriVox recording of The Black Star by Johnston McCulley. Read by Roger Melin. The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a mask so nobody knew what he looked like, rarely spoke to keep his voice from being recognized, and the only mark left at the scenes of the crimes which he and his gang committed were small black stars which were tacked as a sign of their presence, and an occasional sarcastic note to signify his presence and responsibility... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; fiction; mystery Downloads: 17,161 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Aliens - Murray Leinster LibriVox recording of The Aliens, by Murray Leinster. Read by tabithat. The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet ... war is inevitable. Or is it ...? (Summary from Gutenberg text) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. M4B audiobook of Complete Book Keywords: librivox, audiobook, science fiction Downloads: 126,700 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Hunter Patrol - H. Beam Piper and John McGuire LibriVox recording of HUNTER PATROL, by H. Beam Piper and John McGuire Read by Phil Chenevert World War IV has dragged on for 12 years and the whole world is drained and tired of the killing and destruction. One man, a high school chemistry teacher from St. Louis in the USA, is serving his latest forced stint in the UN forces when something strange happens to him. He dies but yet he doesn't. What if you had the power to bring peace to the entire world? What would you do? This story explores a fr... Keywords: librivox; science fiction; piper Downloads: 4,648 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Murder in the Sacristy - Daniel A. Lord LibriVox recording of MURDER IN THE SACRISTY, by DANIEL A. LORD, S.J.. Read by Maria Therese A sacristan is found murdered in the sacristy and the safe robbed of valuable jewels. All clues seem to point to the priest as the murderer. But is the priest the guilty party - or is it the communist? - the nazi? - the Senator's wife? --- or someone else? This mystery novel, set in World War II Chicago, was written by Daniel A Lord, S.J., who was a priest and popular American Catholic writer... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; mystery; murder; Catholic; priest; communism; nazi; world war II Downloads: 3,374 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Uneasy Money - P. G. Wodehouse Librivox recording of Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by Tim Bulkeley. Uneasy Money is a romantic comedy by P.G. Wodehouse, published during the First World War, it offers light escapism. More romantic but only a little less humorous that his mature works, it tells of the vicissitudes of poor Lord Dawlish, who inherits five million dollars, but becomes a serially disappointed groom.When the story opens Bill (Lord Dawlish, a thoroughly pleasant man) is engaged to a demanding actress... Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; fiction; humor; romance Downloads: 12,429 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Among Malay Pirates and Other Tales of Peril and Adventure - G. A. Henty LibriVox recording of Among Malay Pirates and Other Tales of Peril and Adventure, by G. A. Henty. G. A . Henty was a prolific writer of historical fiction for young adults. In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and finish off escaping from captivity in China (Summary by annise) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org... Keywords: LibiVox; Audiobook; Children; Short Stories; Adventure; Historical Fiction; Malay; pirates Downloads: 18,114 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Murder Takes the Veil - Margaret Ann Hubbard LibriVox recording of MURDER TAKES THE VEIL, by MARGARET ANN HUBBARD. Read by Maria Therese Set in the Louisiana bayou country, here is a drama rich with suspense...the story of lovely Trillium Pierce powerless at the mercy of a murderer who believes that he has no power over himself - that his determination to kill is written in the stars. The frightened girl is helpless, as her friends at Aurelian College are victimized by the menace who stalks the swampland in a nun's habit... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; mystery; murder; convent; boarding school; nuns; Catholic Downloads: 3,609 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Dead Men Tell No Tales - Ernest William Hornung LibriVox recording of Dead Men Tell No Tales by Ernest William Hornung Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921) was an English author. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, and was born in Middlesbrough. He was educated at Uppingham during some of the later years of its great headmaster, Edward Thring. He spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1884 left for Australia and stayed for two years where he working as a tutor at Mossgiel station... Keywords: hornung; fiction; mystery; deadmen; librivox; audio books; readers Downloads: 33,498 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Breaking Point - Mary Roberts Rinehart LibriVox recording of The Breaking Point, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Read by Nicholas Clifford. Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he thinks himself honor-bound to unravel it before giving himself to her in ... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; fiction; mystery; romance Downloads: 25,111 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad LibriVox recording of The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad. Read by Gregg Margarite. A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leggatt in his quarters. What is he thinking? Conrad will tell us. - The Secret Sharer was first published in the August and September 1910 issues of Harper’s Magazine. (Summary by Gregg Margarite) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; Sea stories, Mystery Downloads: 7,474 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | At the Villa Rose - A.E.W. Mason LibriVox recording of At the Villa Rose, by A.E.W. Mason. Read by Nicholas Clifford. Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a vacation at Aix-les-Bains. There he meets, and immediately falls in love with, the young and beautiful Celia Harland, who serves as companion to the aging but warm-hearted Madam Dauvray of Paris... Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; fiction; Mystery; Romance Downloads: 2,889 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Silent House - Fergus Hume LibriVox recording of The Silent House, by Fergus Hume (1859-1932). 1907 edition. A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book, the murderer appears to be easy to figure out. The second half of the book, however, is filled with plot twists and mistaken identities and thus complicates the mystery much more. (Summary by cherly) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; mystery; locked room; ghost Downloads: 2,782 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Danger Trail - James Oliver Curwood Librivox recording of The Danger Trail by James Oliver Curwood. Read by Roger Melin. Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through some of the most treacherous terrain in North America. He would soon learn that it was not only the terrain that was forbidding, as he begins to understand why the previous engineers sent on the same mission had been forced to give up the task and flee back to the south... Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; fiction; adventure; romance; Canada Downloads: 14,414 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | D-99 - H.B. Fyfe LibriVox recording of D-99, by H.B. Fyfe. Read by Jerry Pyle. Five citizens of Terra were being held on other worlds -- and the ultra-secret Department 99 existed only to set them, and others like them, free. (Summary from text) M4B audiobook of complete book For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org. Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; science fiction; secret agent; alien abduction Downloads: 12,866 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Officer 666 - Barton Wood Currie & Augustin McHugh LibriVox recording of Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie and Augustin McHugh. Read by Roger Melin. Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rather than thwart the planned burglary, he borrows a police uniform from a friend and decides to confront the robber by posing as an officer. When the burglar arrives at the house, he tries to pass himself off as Travers Gladwin... Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; comedy; farce; madcap Downloads: 7,993 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Defenders - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick LibriVox recording of THE DEFENDERS, by Philip K. Dick. Read by Phil Chenevert. The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has succeeded in sterilizing the surface of the earth. No living creature can now exist there and all humans on both sides, have fled to the hives built miles below the surface where they constantly work to produce the war materials necessary to carry on the battle... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; science fiction; SF; Dick Downloads: 7,374 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective - Ellis Parker Butler LibriVox recording of Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective, by Ellis Parker Butler. Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To that end, he enrolls in a correspondence course, where he gets lessons through the mail as well as the necessary disguises for a detective. Philo Gubb, not being really clever or intuitive, or even looking good in those disguises, gets involved in one case after the o... Keywords: librivox; audiobook; humor; dective Downloads: 1,553 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Dawn of a To-morrow - Frances Hodgson Burnett LibriVox recording of THE DAWN OF A TO-MORROW, by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. Read by LINDA ANDRUS. A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city. He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day to purchase a hand gun he had seen in a pawnshop window. The morning comes with one of those 'memorable fogs' and the adventure he has in it alters his decisions and ultimately his life... Keywords: fiction; religion; philosophy Downloads: 4,615 Average rating: (1 review) |
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